Opinion Columns
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Columnist Michael Barone: Turning away from excessive risk aversionApr 05, 2022 1:00 am - It feels like we're turning a corner. Since the beginning of the calendar year, a lot of things have changed. More importantly, a lot of minds have changed as well. The ...
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Online blogger Eric Zorn: On Columbus statues, Lightfoot picks a wound that had scabbed overApr 05, 2022 1:00 am - The city has - or had - moved on from the controversy over public honors to controversial Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. Mayor Lori Lightfoot removed and mothbal...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: The difference between Alex Jones and real journalismApr 03, 2022 1:00 am - If he squints his eyes just a bit, tilts his head back slightly and sticks his jaw out just a little, Alex Jones can look defiant. Faced with a lawsuit, Jones folds up l...
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Guest columnist Sylvia Agaba: Tragedy in Sub-Saharan Africa needs America's help, tooApr 03, 2022 1:00 am - Even as confidence is shaken with Russia's relentless attacks on Ukrainian cities, the United States of America is demonstrating its solidarity with the Ukrainian people...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Dinner at Madeleine Albright'sApr 01, 2022 1:00 am - When I first met Madeleine Albright in the early 1980s, she was still making dinner for the boys. The boys being the members of what we used to call the "priesthood," th...
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Guest columnists Madeleine Behr, Amanda Pyron: Victims' voices heard in law ending money bailApr 01, 2022 1:00 am - Throughout this year's legislative session, opponents of the Pretrial Fairness Act - a part of the more comprehensive SAFE-T Act - have used stories of sexual and domest...
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: Caring about every word has always been 'something to think about'Mar 31, 2022 1:00 am - Over the course of a long career, you form memories. Sometimes you want to share them just because they make you smile. Sometimes there is current value even beyond that...
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A question about a Harvard educationMar 31, 2022 1:00 am - Well, it looks like we are going to get another Harvard-educated lawyer on the Supreme Court. I question her intellectual capacity, since she couldn't seem to recall the...
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Governor's leadership deserves to continueMar 31, 2022 1:00 am - I have voted in every election since 1952. I have done my best to follow winners, especially governors. Gov. J.B. Pritzker ranks in the top tier, if not No. 1, of govern...
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Don't be so quick to condemn the slapMar 31, 2022 1:00 am - Tuesday's Daily Herald opinion on Will Smiths Grammy slap is just another example of the woke media wanting it both ways. Minimizing Chris Rock's attack on a woman who i...